NINA CONTI: TALK TO THE HAND Comes To Brits Off Broadway

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to welcome The Pleasance to Brits Off Broadway with NINA CONTI: TALK TO THE HAND, written by Ms. Conti and Bill Dare, directed by Mr. Dare and featuring Ms. Conti with Monkey & Granny. NINA CONTI: TALK TO THE HAND begins performances on Tuesday, November 8 for a limited engagement through Sunday, November 13. Press opening is Thursday, November 10 at 7:00 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7 PM; Friday at 8 PM; Saturday at 2 PM & 8 PM; Sunday at 3 PM. Single tickets are $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org. For more information, visit www.britsoffbroadway.com.

Direct from sell out seasons in Edinburgh, London, Melbourne and the Sydney Opera House, Scotland's Queen of Comedy, the incomparable Nina Conti, lands at Brits Off Broadway with NINA CONTI: TALK TO THE HAND, where she bravely goes where no ventriloquist has gone before. Joined by the sassy Granny and the sardonic Monkey, Nina is off on a seat-of-her-pants adventure that has been called "unhinged comedy... It's Sartre meets South Park!" by Australia's The Age.

Nina Conti is the only female ventriloquist to win the prestigious Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008 (an honor she shared that year in a tie with comic Kristen Schaal). The Barry is the festival's highest honor and named Barry Humphries, a founding patron of the festival.

Nina Conti (performer/co-writer), the UK's leading ventriloquist, shot to fame in 2002 by winning the BBC New Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Her innovative and hilarious act has been applauded for raising a discarded art into something intelligent and fiercely witty. In 2008 she won the prestigious BARRY at Melbourne International Comedy Festival with her solo show Complete and Utter Conti. She followed up with sell out seasons in Edinburgh and London with her show Evolution. Nina also had a recent stint in Hollywood when she and Monk appeared in Christopher Guest's movie For Your Consideration, playing a weather team on the fictional ‘Wake Up L.A.', Nina went on to star in a short film with Spinal Tap in England. Christopher Guest then mentored her when she wrote, directed and starred in a ventriloquial documentary drama, Her Master's Voice, which is set to hit film festivals next year. Nina's act appears frequently on television; most recent UK television credits include Children In Need, QI and the The Rob Brydon Show.

Bill Dare (director/co-writer) is the producer of various popular comedy programs for the BBC, including I've Never Seen Star Wars (which he created and also served as writer), The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Spitting Image, Dead Ringers, The Now Show and The Late Edition. He wrote and appeared in his own Radio 4 sketch show, Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue, which ran for five series. His first novel, Natural Selection, is published in the UK and USA, and his first stage play, Touch, was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007. As BBC's Script Executive of TV & Radio Entertainment he has been the point of contact for script development.